Many of you will remember the Kickstarter funded synthetic biology project Glowing plants. In the spring of 2013 Antony Evans (CEO and founder of Glowing plants, renamed TAXA later) and his team had successfully raised

At the beginning of my scientific career, I was captivated by the ability of organic chemists to synthesize molecules. I soon realised, however, that the effort involved was often incredible, especially when you wanted

Founded in 2004, Evolva is one of the first synthetic biology companies ever created, and it is a beautiful example of a successful business in our field. Evolva employs more than 175 people around the

If you are a scientist, in particular a biologist, you might be very familiar with the frustration that comes from trying to reproduce an experiment described in a paper authored by someone else. No matter

As a synthetic biology enthusiast, I am fascinated by the power of the biological tools that are being developed to solve the very immediate and practical problems that our society is facing today. Synthetic biology

It was September 2013 when I first heard of SynBioBeta: the leading community of entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers and enthusiasts devoted to the responsible growth of the synthetic biology field. In that occasion, John Cumbers,

by Steven Burgess Hackathons are ‘hacking’ ‘marathons’, and traditionally bring people together to try and solve a defined problem in the field of software development over a period of several days. The term first came

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By Aakriti Jain Dr. Dan Nicholson is first a scientist, a molecular biologist. However, unlike most researchers in the constantly changing and expanding field of biology, Dan questions the very directions fields like synthetic biology

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